Bug#75106: dbootstrap: wrong choice for partition for LILO bootsector
Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; potato RC3
Severity: normal
I did an install from my RC3 floppies this week - still do not have r1 CDs,
waiting for r2 to be there :} - and went into the following problem. It was
not a blocking problem for me, but I guess it may be to others.
Partionning:
/dev/hda unused (but has old OS and std M$ mbr)
/dev/hdc1 /boot
/dev/hdc2 swap
/dev/hdc3 /
/dev/hdc4 /local
As answers to dbootstrap, as 1st partition to mke2fs I selected hdc3,
mounted it as root, and then mke2fs'd the others.
When it came to LILO setup, I only had 2 choices for LILO location:
hda MBR - well, OK, but I would have prefered hdc MBR, to keep the old
one. Any reason why it's not there ? My bios does support booting
from ide1 ! I tested it successfully !
hdc1 - er... yes. Bad guess. I suspect this can be due to a wrong
assumption like "/ is the first ext2", but I suspect many people
still put /boot first ! Strange that it did not picked up hdc3
here.
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.17 #1 Sun Sep 10 19:21:52 CEST 2000 i586
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